As a follow up to my post a couple up, though prob not relivant just as weird. I reinstalled windows7 (64) the other day on the same machine but sperated HDD and as a temporary measure untill I can figure out why PMserv isn't muxing correctly, I decided to convert everything new to m2ts and AC3. But I was going bonkers over why evertime I created a file using tsmuxer or mkv2vob the file couldn't be rendered in MPCH.

I don't know why but it seemed to be because I was either running from or using folders on the ext3 drive as temp folders. Once I moved Tsmuxer back to C: (ntfs) and the temp dir in mkv2vob also, the files were coming up fine.

Think I'm ready to give up on my mkv issues, just doesn't make sense, so'll I'll just mux/transcode stuff I want myself for now.

Possible feature request, a nice little plugin that was useful for the windows PMS was the ability to turn off the machine from a link i.e. seleting this link through my Braiva I could remotley turn off the PC/NAS at night. Would this be possible with PMServ? Keep up the great work, cheers

@ vyrticul:Great stuff; I am keen to hear when you have your repo up and whether a plain vanilla Opensuse 11.4 64-bit user like myself could use it If not, would you be willing to share the sourcecode you are using for mplayer-mt? I am struggling to get that working ATM.

@maxcovergold shouldn't be too hard to add and seems like a nice feature, I'll check it out. Also as for your transcoding issue, not sure but all my mkv's going to my PS3 work just fine and they're on ext3 partition.

@slooff I don't see why you wouldn't be able to use the repos on normal opensuse 11.4... once i get the time to get them up. I haven't had much time to work on it lately but hopefully that changes.

As for the mencoder-mt source code, I was having a heck of a time compiling it as well for openSUSE so I eventually broke down, took a version of it compiled for Debian and made sure the exact library versions it was looking for were installed (or faked their install ).

when playing mkv's PMS starts mencoder with "-lavdopts debug=0:threads=4" and mencoder works fine using all 4 cores.... When playing DVD ISO's, PMS starts mencoder with "-lavdopts debug=0:threads=1" and as expected, uses only 1 core.

Benchmarks with mplayer OTOH don't show multi-threading working at all.

Maybe we don't have go through that many hoops anymore getting mplayer-mt to compile as it appears that the standard packages from packman are working fine, at least for mencoder.